conservation

• Maryland

Carroll County Public Library schedules (Sept. 8-14)

The following programs will be offered through Carroll County Public Library. Registration is required only where noted. For more information, call 410-386-

• Baltimore City Paper

Morgan's Community Mile bridges the town-gown divide

As broadly conceived by Morgan State University President David Wilson, the Morgan Community Mile is reference to the neighborhoods that fall in a one-mile circumference around MSU and actually encompasses the 12.2 square miles surrounding the campus and the 141,000 residents that live there. The The thinking is that a university like Morgan has resources—faculty and students, if not money—that it can share with the community in a mutually beneficial way that also gives students some

• Opinion

The environmental nightmare that is ethanol

Don't tell Iowa caucus voters, but ethanol is an expensive environmental nightmare, Jonah Goldberg writes.

• Opinion

The outdoor classroom beckons

Exploring nature can touch students in ways that classroom instruction rarely does

• Health

EpiPens needed by those with severe food allergies are getting expensive

EpiPens needed by those with severe food allergies are getting expensive

By Meredith Cohn

Aug 19, 2016

• Health

Asthma hospitalizations in Maryland could rise with climate change

Asthma-related hospitalizations increase significantly during severe heat and rainstorms, which are predicted to worsen as the Earth warms from climate change, according to new research from the University of Maryland School of Public Health.

By Carrie Wells

May 14, 2016

• Baltimore City

UMBC, Northrop Grumman to invest $1.6 million in South Baltimore school

Two of Maryland's leading science and technology institutions are joining forces to invest $1.6 million in manpower and resources to enhance learning at a south Baltimore school.

• Baltimore City

Sarah's Hope shelter doubles in size to serve homeless families

Sarah's Hope, a shelter in Sandtown-Winchester provides, private rooms for intact family after a $8 million renovation that doubled capacity at the city's largest shelter for men, women and children.

By Yvonne Wenger

Oct 8, 2015

• Opinion

The U.N. must coordinate the fight against the Islamic State

The international community has not developed a coordinated communication strategy as force-multiplier against ISIL. Mindful of this dynamic, there are now demands for the United Nations to enhance its ability to deal with the threat more effectively and provide leadership and strategic direction on countering violent extremism.

• Opinion

We must demand clean power

Efforts to address climate change are reaching a critical milestone that requires public support

• Opinion

No lame duck president

From immigration to climate change, Barack Obama is not going away quietly and that's a heartening development for his supporters

• Maryland

Health Department: Preventing and living healthy with diabetes

• Maryland

New Windsor Brethren Center for sale

After more than 65 years, the Church of the Brethren looks to liquidate their New Windsor campus

• Sports

MSSA's Captain of the Year on the line at this weekend's Chesapeake Bay Fall Classic

Next Saturday and Sunday, about 200 crews will compete to catch the largest striped bass. It's the last of four events in this year's Maryland Saltwater Sportfishing Association tournament series and the largest fall tourney in the Chesapeake Bay, said Dave Smith, executive director of the MSSA.

• Maryland

HSP awarded new BGE grant

BGE, An Exelon Company, gives HSP a $2,000 grant for New Volunteer Management Resources

• Opinion

Climate breakthrough

Deal with China could jump-start international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions — if Congressional Republicans don't stand in the way

• Opinion

Another 'sleazy' land deal?

The O'Malley administration's scramble to make an Eastern Shore farm purchase less sketchy falls short of good government

• Opinion

Is Chinese strategy the key to defeating Islamic State?

We should be asking how the Chinese have benefited from the worldwide terrorism threat and whether there's a lesson for the West in all of this.

• Politics

State would lease $2.8 million farm for $1 a year

By Michael Dresser

Nov 11, 2014

• Opinion

Connecting city kids to health care careers

Many programs promote STEM education and aim to increase diversity in the health sciences. This is a good start, but to put students on the path to careers in health care, they need more.

• Opinion

The young and the not so restless

Recent reports have highlighted the movement of young, college-educated people to the nation's cities. Baltimore is among the beneficiaries of this shift. Between the turn of the century and last year, the city ranked third fastest of the nation's cities of 600,000 population or more in attracting educated 25- to 34-year-olds — a growth rate of 75 percent.

• Opinion

Voters entrusted climate policy to climate change denier

Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe will likely be chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee

• Maryland

Carroll joins three other counties with intentions to coordinate with EPA

The Board of Carroll County Commissioners signed a letter on Thursday stating their intent to join Dorchester and Kent Counties in their efforts to persuade federal and state agencies to allow them to engage in oyster restoration in the Chesapeake Bay.

• Opinion

The founder of the environmental movement had Baltimore roots

Rachel Carson's three lyrical books on the sea made her an acclaimed author, but 1962's "Silent Spring" — the title conjuring a world without birdsong — made her a heroine.

• Opinion

U.S. is short-sighted in Egypt

The U.S. will never persuade General el-Sissi to embrace democracy or end the endemic corruption that enriches Egyptian generals. But we can use the leverage our huge aid payments provide to protect some space for independent voices.

• Maryland

Schools chief Guthrie named Md. superintendent of the year

• Politics

Groups competing for Hogan's attention

With Maryland's long campaign for governor now over, the unexpected election of Republican businessman Larry Hogan has given rise to an intense new campaign now just beginning: The jockeying among advocates and interest groups for attention, jobs and influence in a rare GOP administration.

• Conservation

Manufacturing boot camp matches trainees with jobs

About two dozen trainee candidates in a six-week workforce training boot camp are getting an inside look at the Baltimore area's manufacturing landscape. For those who can prove themselves by course's end, a limited number of jobs will be waiting.

• Howard County

Howard Planning Board approves minor expansion to agricultural preservation program

Howard County's Planning Board voted Thursday to approve a zoning amendment allowing a minor expansion of the county's Agricultural Land Preservation easement program.

• Baltimore City Paper

Wandering Eye: The Frank Conaway Jr. scandal conveniently drops after Election Day, making the video game NFL Blitz, and more

• Opinion

Better oversight needed for agencies caring for severely disabled youth

Investigative reporting by The Baltimore Sun has raised a number of questions about the care that the state's most vulnerable children are receiving and suggested that policies and procedures to safeguard children are not being fully followed.

• Opinion

Time to act on climate change

Time to act on climate change

• Politics

Del. Frank Conaway Jr. resigns from City Hall job amid investigation

City delegate, under investigation for rambling videos, resigns from day job

By Luke Broadwater

Nov 5, 2014

• Maryland

Mount Airy approves new Master Plan

The Mount Airy Town Council voted to accept the 2013 Master Plan Monday night. Changes were made to several chapters of the former 2003 Master Plan, including altering land-use designations and zoning regulations, addressing the need for a wider ranging transportation service within the town, the protection and utilization of resources, water availability and sewer capacity, and expanding its community facilities, such as schools and parks.

• Opinion

Where do Hogan and Brown stand on climate change?

Where to the candidates stand on climate change?

• Maryland

Carroll Biz Challenge names its seven finalists

The seven finalists have been named for the third annual Carroll Biz Challenge and the entrepreneurs and their business ideas are as eclectic as you can get.

• Conservation

How you can sustain sustainability

• Harford

Three-way battle for Cecil County House seat

Democratic Del. David Rudolph, a 20-year veteran representative of Cecil County in the Maryland General Assembly, is facing two challengers going into next week's general election as he seeks a sixth term in Annapolis.

• Opinion

Drugs rotting on the vine

With Ebola threatening the world's populations, there is a new urgency to find therapies. Bringing naturally occurring pharmaceuticals to market should be a priority for our nation because drugs derived from nature are astonishingly successful. The United States' policy and law, however, strongly discourage prospecting for drugs in nature.

• Howard County

NASA comes to Howard Community College for forum on climate change data

Scientists who observe Earth from space say the data they collect tells them climate change is impacting land use. With a goal of sharing that data with the masses, "Changing Landscapes Observed from Space" is the topic of a forum open to the public at Howard Community College on Nov. 8.

• Opinion

Democrats run the economy better

Democrats run the economy better

• Conservation

Volunteering in Anne Arundel

Anne Arundel County volunteer briefs

• Opinion

Don't let water slip through our fingers

City must wake up and reject Veolia's plan to manage local water supply

• Anne Arundel

Schuh, Johnson vie for chance to run Anne Arundel County

In Anne Arundel County, Republican Steve Schuh and Democrat George F. Johnson IV are vying for the right to run Maryland's fifth-largest jurisdiction.

By Pamela Wood

Oct 28, 2014

• Editorial

Baltimore's tax sale folly

Baltimore's low threshold for triggering tax sales hurts homeowners, neighborhoods and the city budget.

• Maryland

Make good choices Election Day

• Opinion

Send a message to D.C. on Election Day

The Democrats have led the country astray; vote them out.

By Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.

Oct 26, 2014

• Maryland

County seeks to preserve land, agriculture

Glen Shirley, a member of the Carroll County Agricultural Land Preservation Advisory Board, said he can remember stories his father used to tell him of the farm he grew up on. Of the emerald and golden landscape, the bliss of an uninterrupted view of nature's bounty.

• Environment

Maryland seeks person who killed eagle

Maryland Natural Resources Police are looking for a person they said shot and killed a bald eagle in Pasadena last month, the state agency said on Friday.

By John Fritze

Oct 24, 2014

• Conservation

Volunteering in Anne Arundel

Anne Arundel County volunteer briefs